1. which of the following individuals wrote about his/her neighbors in maine?

a. sarah orne jewett

b. ambrose bierce

c. charles waddell chesnutt

2. what do realistic authors write about?

a. immigration from europe

b. nature and emotion

c. everyday life and harsh realities of war

3. which author wrote both during the american romantic period and the realism movement?

a. mark twain

b. emily dickinson

c. ambrose bierce

4. ambrose bierce likes to use which literary element in his stories.

a. oxymoron

b. alliteration

c. flashback

possessives: choose the correct form of possession for the underlined word.

5. i just opened a savings account at the ohio electric company main street office.

a. ohio electric company

b. ohio electric company’s

c. ohio electric companies

6. the peoples court is located on first avenue.

a. peoples’

b. people’s

c. peoples’s

7. the socks and slippers we found are now our.

a. our’s

b. ours

c. ours’

8. i bought this shirt on sale in the mens department.

a. men’s

b. mens’

c. mens’s

9. the cat hid it kittens under the stairs.

a. its

b. it’s

c. its’

10. everyone homework should be handed in by noon.

a. everyone’s

b. everyones

c. everyones’

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

adding more details about the struggle rainsford experiences as he swims to the shore